Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Illustration Friday: "Sorrow"

Wallowing In It, 2005 • graphite and Photoshop®

Y'know when you're busy beating yourself up, and all you hear is white noise in your head (or some mental equivalent)? That's what this is about. I've spent many late nights bitching about my lot in life (minus the bottle this dude is holding, I don't drink). I try not to do that anymore. Yup.

I been meaning to join in on this thing, and I thought this'd be the week to do it...and then I saw the subject: "Sorrow". Ewwwwwww. But someday, man. Someday you'll see my name in that Illustration Friday list.

A very good piece, and I can relate. And I know what you mean about the internal "white noise". One fancy-pants artspeak analysis of it can be how the expressive charcoal-ish line of the character, his seat and the white noise inside of the more normal thought bubble linework. That is the fellow has a normal brain, but his emotions are defining him and his surrounding world, and vice versa. Just one interpretation, to each his own; that's the power of illustration. Keep up the good work.